What Happens When You Eat Nothing But Bacon for 30 Days Straight?
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What Happens When You Eat Nothing But Bacon for 30 Days Straight?
I expected that even though I was eating 2500 calories a day, an increase of 500 calories a day for me, that I would not gain much weight, I already knew that eating fat and protein doesn’t make you fat.
... bacon has a great fat to protein ratio and if there was one food I could eat for a month it would be bacon. It also already has the salt/sodium that low carbers need built right into it. The more I researched it, the better it looked; pork has a better amino acid profile than beef even.
I expected that even though I was eating 2500 calories a day, an increase of 500 calories a day for me, that I would not gain much weight, I already knew that eating fat and protein doesn’t make you fat.
... bacon has a great fat to protein ratio and if there was one food I could eat for a month it would be bacon. It also already has the salt/sodium that low carbers need built right into it. The more I researched it, the better it looked; pork has a better amino acid profile than beef even.
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I was watching this guy when he did this on Facebook. To be honest, I just don't like bacon enough to make this doable for me.0
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Yeah, he said he was craving beef towards the end.
Pretty amazing results, especially since he was keto for a year prior to that.0 -
Ha maybe this would solve my sodium issue lol
Though I couldn't eat that much bacon0 -
"What Happens When You Eat Nothing But Bacon for 30 Days Straight?"
Happiness. Happiness is what happens.0 -
I could absolutely do that! No joke! I love bacon!0
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Interesting!
I do love bacon but I think I'd get bored.0 -
I think I could do it! I love bacon! Wright's brand is my absolute favorite!0
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Am I the only one that hates cooking bacon? Tedious to cook especially if you're making a lot, then you eat the first batch while you're cooking the second .. Or that could be just me 0
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LiftRunRepeat22 wrote: »Am I the only one that hates cooking bacon? Tedious to cook especially if you're making a lot, then you eat the first batch while you're cooking the second .. Or that could be just me
It's so much easier to bake it on a pan in the oven.0 -
I could do two pounds of ground beef a day, and nothing else, for a month. That's actually pretty close to some of my months in the past. I like bacon, but I don't find it satisfying enough on its own.0
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I could do two pounds of ground beef a day, and nothing else, for a month. That's actually pretty close to some of my months in the past. I like bacon, but I don't find it satisfying enough on its own.
wouldn't beef have too much protein? thinking out loud because i too dont think bacon would be enough for me.
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Yes! I believe I could do it!! no problem, especially cooked as a slab of pork belly!0
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I could do two pounds of ground beef a day, and nothing else, for a month. That's actually pretty close to some of my months in the past. I like bacon, but I don't find it satisfying enough on its own.
wouldn't beef have too much protein? thinking out loud because i too dont think bacon would be enough for me.
I do not restrict protein. I know some people do, but I haven't found it to have any benefit for me. I lose/maintain just as easily when eating 200 grams of protein as when I eat 100 grams. In actuality, I tend to average around the middle of those numbers.0 -
LOL, when I log my food, it's not unlike that. Maybe I will do that. But, I need to finish off the food that I have out right now and get to the store to buy 60 pounds of ground beef (probably go to BJ's... should run me under $170 there).
Edit: By my estimates, it would be like 224 grams of fat (88 grams of it saturated fat) and 144 grams of protein each day. Approx. 2600 calories a day. More if I am hungry and less if I wasn't. I would probably lose some weight, which I could afford to do right now. It would run me under $6 a day, which isn't bad for me.0 -
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/FIT_Goat/view/the-30-day-ground-beef-experiment-811345
We'll see. I will go and run to the store this weekend. I already have some ground beef, so I might be able to start sooner. But, I need to get the food I just bought eaten first. Ground beef is my "filler" when I run out of steak.0 -
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Ladies, whomever has the LOVE of bacon, anyone willing to do a week or month experiment on behalf of the rest of us eager learners? I find sometimes experiments on men do not have the same results with women. Hormones, I guess. I am traveling a lot in next 2 months so not practical for me to do a month. I love bacon but not more than 2 day to max a week worth! So... any bacon loving volunteers for a month? Alternately I am happy to do a bacon week as a fun team event. mmmmmmm bacon0
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I would be willing to do the hamburger for a month. I like bacon, but I don't think I love it enough to do a month. I don't know if I would be a good female candidate to pair with @Fit_Goat, but would be willing to give it a go. I can say I wouldn't be able to begin before the 21st of March (after returning from Jamaica!). Ideas?0
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21 march works for me. Back from USA and not yet departing for Asia.0
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Suicide. That's what would happen (to me).
I'll never get what it is that makes people love bacon. I eat it now and then for breakfast, the same way others eat vegetables they don't like, "because it's healthy". It's better than medication, but that's as far as I'll go.
I'm feeling really low today and depressed. One and a half year into this, 92lbs lost, huge health benefits and all I wanted was to find something I could eat that I would love to eat and not be bad for my health. Even chocolate no longer fits, now that I can eat it I almost never want it. I've been eating close to zero carbs to try to get control of my mind but all I crave is a big basket with all the fruit in the world.
Sorry for the rant, glad someone enjoys their bacon.
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KetoGirl83 wrote: »Suicide. That's what would happen (to me).
I'll never get what it is that makes people love bacon. I eat it now and then for breakfast, the same way others eat vegetables they don't like, "because it's healthy". It's better than medication, but that's as far as I'll go.
I'm feeling really low today and depressed. One and a half year into this, 92lbs lost, huge health benefits and all I wanted was to find something I could eat that I would love to eat and not be bad for my health. Even chocolate no longer fits, now that I can eat it I almost never want it. I've been eating close to zero carbs to try to get control of my mind but all I crave is a big basket with all the fruit in the world.
Sorry for the rant, glad someone enjoys their bacon.
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I completely understand. After a week of having my diet thrown into chaos from stress, with all of my health indicators thrown as far out of whack as a carb binge would have sent them, I've been craving a treat too. I tried a Quest Cravings Peanut Butter cup, which was my old LCHF treat and I found it very unappealing. So, I've decided to have a veggie binge LOL. I need a break from my meat & cheese fest, plus I'm not feeling so well, so I've bumped my carbs up for a few days, though still under 50 total, but enough so that I can have some Thai soup and some chicken curry. I figured if I'm going to have to up my insulin injections, I may as well enjoy some vegetables for a few days. Back to bacon later this week!0 -
SamandaIndia wrote: »Ladies, whomever has the LOVE of bacon, anyone willing to do a week or month experiment on behalf of the rest of us eager learners? I find sometimes experiments on men do not have the same results with women. Hormones, I guess. I am traveling a lot in next 2 months so not practical for me to do a month. I love bacon but not more than 2 day to max a week worth! So... any bacon loving volunteers for a month? Alternately I am happy to do a bacon week as a fun team event. mmmmmmm bacon
I'm game! Kind of LOL. I like @Time2LoseWeightNOW 's pork belly suggestion. I like bacon, but do get tired of it pretty quickly. I would be down for 1-2 weeks of bacon + one fried egg for breakfast (in bacon fat) and a slab of pork belly w/ crackling for dinner and if I can make it two weeks, I'll see if I can push it further.
21 March sounds good, I'm a bit of a mess right now - blood sugar, electrolytes and digestion are all thrown off after a high stress week, so that will give me enough time to get back to a solid baseline.0 -
I don't think I could do that much bacon. A little is ok for me. What I'm really craving is homemade chicken soup. With carrots. (I'm a wild woman!). I have a nasty chest cold and I think a nice soup with home made broth and lots of garlic and onions and a bit of cayenne and sage would taste really good. I have some goose fat saved from Christmas to sauté the veggies in.0
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I could probably hold off until the 21st, so we could have 2-3 people doing it at the same time. One with bacon+egg, one woman with hamburger, and one man with hamburger. I think self-experiments rarely provide completely accurate information for anyone but the person or people in them. I know my own body reacts slightly differently than others might.
That said, the difference between men and women, with these sorts of things, tends to be more pronounced. I would be interested in seeing what happens. It would also be cool if everyone had a decent idea of their TDEE. I know mine from having a very detailed log of what I eat to remain weight stable. It also found a calculation that does a decent job (not TDEE, but age/weight/gender based) for predicting it for me. Both of those put my TDEE around 2,800 eating this way. Knowing if there is a deficit, and how big it is, might help compare the results.0 -
I could probably hold off until the 21st, so we could have 2-3 people doing it at the same time. One with bacon+egg, one woman with hamburger, and one man with hamburger. I think self-experiments rarely provide completely accurate information for anyone but the person or people in them. I know my own body reacts slightly differently than others might.
That said, the difference between men and women, with these sorts of things, tends to be more pronounced. I would be interested in seeing what happens. It would also be cool if everyone had a decent idea of their TDEE. I know mine from having a very detailed log of what I eat to remain weight stable. It also found a calculation that does a decent job (not TDEE, but age/weight/gender based) for predicting it for me. Both of those put my TDEE around 2,800 eating this way. Knowing if there is a deficit, and how big it is, might help compare the results.
I like the peer pressure of doing self-experimentation with a group It's more likely to encourage me to push my experiment on long enough to provide me with some worthwhile information.
I'm a long way from maintenance mode, so I don't have quantifiable information (only approximations based on various calculators) as to what I would need to eat to neither gain nor lose. However, I've been very consistent with my diet for the last 2.5 months and know the affect of my current way of eating (calories & macros) on my body with weight, blood glucose and blood pressure as the indicators I measure daily. And I have a fitbit on the way, so I'll be able to track additional measures and will have a better idea as to how it affects my energy levels.0 -
Maybe it is the salt that makes bacon so good. The smell of flying bacon is awesome to me as well. 0
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Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »I could absolutely do that! No joke! I love bacon!
I loved bacon too, until I ate it about 5x in a week..... then I had to have a break from it.
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GaleHawkins wrote: » The smell of flying bacon is awesome to me as well.
Had to laugh at that typo *flying bacon* = "when pigs fly".
@FIT_Goat - I might try the ground beef experiment as well to see if I lose weight.
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I went to the TDEE calculator (I've done it before, but wanted numbers based on where I am now), and I'm at 2250 calories a day.
Maybe we should begin a new thread?
Another thought? I return from my trip on the twentieth. I only plan to indulge in some alcohol since higher carb food makes me hurt, but I'm sure the alcohol will have some effect on the scale when I return. So, will I have an accurate weight to begin with? Am I over thinking it? Would this make a difference? Just thoughts!?!0
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